Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. The open-source KubeVirt project wraps each VM in a lightweight container.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 15, 2017

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself. But what if there are ideas out there — outside of your company’s…

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APRIL 2, 2025

Although it wasnt ready for the current round of benchmarking, Salvator pointed out that the companys Dynamo open source inferencing software, introduced at GTC 2025 , will up the ante even further. McGregor described Dynamo as significant: Think of an OS for an entire data center. So, this is huge.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Whats inside VergeIO and where its deployed While the ESX hypervisor is at the core of the VMware virtualization platform, VergeIO is based on the open-source KVM hypervisor. The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For example, Cisco and Nvidia just expanded their partnership to bolster AI in the data center. Similarly, they might not trust the big AI vendors with their data, either, he says. You get to a certain point where its cheaper to run it on your own hardware instead of running it in the cloud, Harvey says.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Open source and Linux platform vendor SUSE is looking to help organizations solve some of the complexity and challenges of edge computing with the company’s SUSE Edge 3.1 Metal3 is being integrated with the Rancher Kubernetes management capabilities to enable remote orchestration of bare-metal deployments in the data center.

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Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

The aim of the SDM is to migrate existing applications which have been written to run on a mainframe and enable such programs to be run on the x86 runtime environment without recompilation, the judgement reads.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

L3AF is an open-source project aimed at simplifying monitoring and control networks of large-scale cloud applications, Ranny Haiby, CTO of networking, edge and access at the Linux Foundation, told Network World.Some of the main use cases for L3AF are in traffic rate limiting, DDoS mitigation, traffic quality monitoring and network observability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Core challenges for sovereign AI Resource constraints Developing and maintaining sovereign AI systems requires significant investments in infrastructure, including hardware (e.g., high-performance computing GPU), data centers, and energy.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 8, 2017

Online catalogue lists servers, storage, network gear and vendors ready to deliver Read More.

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Network World

JULY 23, 2024

The processor market for AI-enabled systems is vast and highly varied given the many uses and work conditions for AI, including the data center, cloud, and edge. This will benefit the traditional players who have a well-established data center business,” Gold wrote.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

“With Multislice, developers can scale workloads up to tens of thousands of chips over inter-chip interconnect (ICI) within a single pod, or across multiple pods over a data center network,” Vahdat explained last year in a blog post co-written with his colleague Mark Lohmeyer. Google launched the first iteration of its TPU in 2016.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit that accelerates AI inference and lets developers use AI models trained using popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, and others. Intel IPUs are hardware accelerators that offload a number of tasks such as packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching from the server CPU.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. In hyperscale computing key-value stores are popular for schema-less data structures used in NoSQL databases. Fusion-io Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 21, 2017

Its licensing framework is one of the key differences between LinkedIn’s data center tech foundation and OCP. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 28, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant is the world’s biggest open source hardware design factory Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made a big splash last week when it unveiled an open-source version of its reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, claiming performance superior to OpenAIs o1 generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). The most advanced new models will still have high R&D and compute costs thatll be passed on to early adopters.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here are six tips for developing and deploying AI without huge investments in expert staff or exotic hardware. However, the investment in supercomputing infrastructure, HPC expertise, and data scientists is beyond all but the largest hyperscalers, enterprises, and government agencies. Not at all.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Articul8 AI will be led by Arun Subramaniyan, formerly vice president and general manager in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group. The new entity will use an Intel generative AI system that can read text and images using a combination of open-source and in-house technology.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Modular Data Centers.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2025

Even so, the fact that DeepSeek-V3-0324 can run locally on this hardware is remarkable. Contemporary models of comparable size typically demand far larger GPU clusters chewing through power in dedicated data centers. Hardware restrictions and limited access to the latest Nvidia chips forced these companies to innovate.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

. “We’re excited about the opportunities ahead to expand our footprint via Cisco’s global reach, as well as Cisco’s commitment to support our pace of innovation in both commercial markets and the open source community.” Cisco Targets ‘Data Center 3.0′ Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The AMD FirePro professional graphics demonstrations featured unique animation, display, simulation and other creative hardware and software collaborations for attendees from around the world. Avatar, Hollywood and the Data Center. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Add Your Comments.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The paper captures design considerations for enterprise technologists that flow from the engineering work both Cloudera and Intel have been putting into both open source technologies and hardware design.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Technology expected to improve hardware efficiency of NoSQL database Read More. Deals Storage'

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. Furthermore, there are some strictures emplaced by HCI vendors that limit the flavour of hypervisor or constrain hardware choices to approved kits. The latter trend is demand-led.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data centers are only valuable if they can share data Image Credit: Sean Ellis. As the person with the CIO job at your company, you have the added responsibility of maintaining your company’s data centers. Just exactly how are you going to ensure that your data centers can talk to each other?

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

At its Evolve24 annual data and AI conference this week, Cloudera announced the Cloudera AI Inference Service, which leverages Nvidia’s NIM microservices. Nvidia NIMs are packaged-up open-source generative AI applications , such as Llama and Mistral, together with APIs and the accelerators needed to run them most effectively on Nvidia’s GPUs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Using 3D MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) and all optical switches in the data center means that without upgrading the switch, speeds can go from 10Gbps to 40Gbps and then 100 Gbps. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Modular Data Centers.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Cisco and Juniper (whose acquisition by HPE seems on track) have both announced intentions to focus more on AI in the enterprise data center. Enterprises overall think that you start AI hosting plans with GPUs and data center equipment, but every one of the “confident” enterprises say that’s wrong.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

By understanding their options and leveraging GPU-as-a-service, CIOs can optimize genAI hardware costs and maintain processing power for innovation.” Open source is one way CIOs can definitely keep the costs low,” he says, pointing out that open-source models are also transparent and can be customized. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

nGenius provides borderless observability across multiple domains, including network and data center/ cloud service edges, for application and network performance analysis and troubleshooting throughout complex hybrid, multicloud environments. Versas management platform can be deployed in a public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises.

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